Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cucuyo .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.
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- noun The
fire beetle ofMexico and theWest Indies .
Etymologies
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Native name.
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Examples
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[Footnote 4: The _Pyrophorus noctilucus_, or "cucujo," found also in
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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